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Sussex Police shoot another man. No officer will be prosecuted.
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by atkinson pheasantscroft | February 10, 2011 at 02:40 pm
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Sussex police in Southern England have managed to shoot another civilian today.
No officer will be prosecuted for the manslaughter or murder of the man killed today, if previous patterns of police evading prosecutions is maintained.
Five years after Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head, we have seen nothing change. Will the deceased have been properly challenged? It does not matter. He is dead, the versions of events that may incriminate the police which might be given by any members of the public will be contradicted by the police who will have been allowed to compare notes in private first, and so the officers will be exonerated. And the Independent Police Complaints Commission will only see reports prepared and selected by the police.
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at 10:10 on February 14th, 2011
Importantly,"Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes" was shot by officers of the London MET Police. Sussex Police were not involved in that incident. Sussex Police last shot a man "believed to be armed" in Copthorne, West Sussex on 8th November 2010, only injuring his hand.
at 15:38 on February 17th, 2011
It is not important that one police force or another shot a man dead. What is important in a country where the police force should serve the public, is that the public is protected from the excesses of the police force, rather than that the police force members are protected from the law by other police officers.
Time and again, members of the public are assaulted by members of the police.
And no police officers are convicted.
Not equal under the law?
Democracy?